Why the need for German planes?

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Originally Posted by Anton Yudintsev

First of all, I am not against fighting for axis airbattles. I was against them in Birds of Prey. It is our first console flight-sim, and we were going to make it as flawless as possible.
Fighting for Axis, even in game, is not 100% ethical.

Second, please, don't re-type bullshit about USSR. Of course, there were executions, but nothing close to 20 million, even number of all prisoners (with criminals, like thiefs or bandits), not all of them executed, is less than that. Less than 1 million of executions (but close to), is something very huge, but it isn't anyhow close to what Axis did. It's something close to what USA did to thier people during great depression.

Also, the main differences is reasoning. Axis - were executing people because of their _race_. Stalin - was just a dictator, he was trying to keep power (and did it not for his own wealth, but for the country - that's was how he understood 'lesser evil' concept).

Every country has it's black pages. But in Birds of Prey gamers (like real soldiers of world war2) are not fighting for Stalin or against some of his opposers. Those days people were fighting for freedom, for survival - against evil. Not all of Germans were Nazis of course. Not even most of them. But all German soldiers were fighting for Nazi.

It doesn't mean that fighting for Axis airforce in any game is 100% unethical.
But on the other hand, fighting for Allies IS 100% ethical.

Oh, please. You're going to defend Stalin?

From 1931-1933 ALONE, about 3-5 million Ukranians starved to death from the forced Collectivization due to Stalin's "policies." He could have cared less.

Oh, right. They did it for the collective "Good of The Soviet Union."

I won't relist all the atrocities conducted under Stalin's Reign of Terror. Any number of books on the market by Robert Service, Simon Sebag Montefiore, etc, can do it better than I.

The point is, Stalin, who entered into a deal with Hitler in August 1939, so that the latter could START the Second World War, and who grabbed Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Half of Poland, then immediately rounded up and executed their people in the Ten's of Thousands (remember the Katyn Massacre?) was just as bad, if not worse, Than Hitler.

I don't want to "fight" for Der Fuhrer, any more than I want to fight for Koba (Stalin's nickname). I just would like to fly ALL the airplanes involved in the conflict.

..., and I don't think I'm alone.

LJB